Seungmin Yoo

Welcome to my personal website! I am a PhD candidate in Strategy & Innovation at Boston University, Questrom School of Business. I am an NBER Graduate Fellow (2026–2027).

I am a strategy scholar who investigates how institutions shape high-skilled migrants' opportunities to accumulate, transfer, and deploy their human capital across borders and, in turn, influence innovation and entrepreneurship. My dissertation examines these processes across two underexplored phases of the skilled migration lifecycle: student immigration and return migration. My job market paper examines whether and how U.S. professional experience enhances migrants’ entrepreneurial capabilities and shapes their startup founding upon return to their home countries, including its rate, quality, and direction.

My research has received the Will Mitchell SRF Dissertation Research Grant, and I am also a recipient of the NBER Graduate Fellowship on the Fiscal and Economic Effects of Innovation and Productivity Policies, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market.

Committee: Timothy Simcoe (chair), Jeffrey Furman, and Megan MacGarvie

Email: smyoo@bu.edu